Do you pray for more faith?

Sup fellas, let's rock! Luke 17:5 says, "The apostles said to the Lord, 'Increase our faith!" Ya'll ever pray prayers like that? I'll be the first to say I know I have. I mean, these are Jesus's dudes who were with Him for over three years, watching Jesus heal people, cast out demons, and raise the dead, but yet they still asked for more faith....really?? But Jesus was telling His disciples that they didn't need any more faith, and that just a small amount will move mountains. The little that they had could do much, but they were not using it.

To me, it's almost like when you pray for faith, you are praying to believe. And, I don't think you can pray to believe. Either you believe or you don't believe. Such a prayer is almost based more on unbelief than it is belief, and therefore would not be answered. Instead, faith grows as the Word is taken into our lives and acted upon. Romans 10:17 says, "Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ." Faith comes and increases as we hear and believe the Word and put it into practice.

It is not the size of your faith that counts, it is the size of your God. If you believe, you activate heaven. So, if you wanna increase your faith, increase the intake of the Word of God. What you know of the Word becomes the limit of your faith because you can believe only what you know. So, this is where church, Bible studies, e-fellowship, etc. plays its crucial role; covering all aspects of the Christian life in order to understand how God operates in every area of life because we want to have faith in all those areas.

trying to die to myself,

-tmart